1. A variety of sugar occurring in nature very abundantly, as in ripe grapes, and in honey, and produced in great quantities from starch, etc., by the action of heat and acids. It is only about half as sweet as cane sugar. Called also dextrose, grape sugar, diabetic sugar, and starch sugar. See Dextrose.
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Glucose
Encyclopedia Britannica
GLUCOSE, a species of sugar, on the chemical and other properties and the occurrence and manufacture of which see articles Chemistry, vol. v. pp. 564, 572; Dextrin and Diabetes, vol. vii. pp. 146, 147; Fermentation, vol. ix. pp. 93, 94, 96, 97; Gallic Acid, vol. x. p. 41; and Sugar,
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 10, p. 695
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Sweetness Roget’s Thesaurus §396
N. sweetness, dulcitude, # sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna, confection, confectionary, sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture, jam, julep, sugar-candy, sugar-plum, licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop, bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat, apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose, maple sirup, maple syrup, maple sugar, mithai, sorghum, taffy, nectar, hydromel, mead, meade, metheglin, honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif, sugar cane, sugar beets, desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff, pudding (food) 298, dulcification|, dulcoration|, sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar, dextrose, artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, sweet'n low
Adj. sweet, saccharine, sacchariferous, dulcet, candied, honied, luscious, lush, nectarious, melliferous, sweetened, sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey, sickly sweet
Phr. eau sucre, "sweets to the sweet"
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